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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....
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Diminishing returns
- By Amazon Customer on 27-05-18
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Series: Incerto
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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This book is life changing
- By Jack on 29-10-19
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....
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Outstanding scholarship and eloquent arguments
- By Oxfordians on 04-12-20
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Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-10-20
- Language: English
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Dramatised)
- By: Robert M. Pirsig, Peter Flannery
- Narrated by: James Purefoy, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s....
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disappointed
- By Dr. Ian J. Tatner on 24-07-13
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: James Purefoy, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-07-12
- Language: English
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One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s....
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Renaissance Nation
- How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
- By: David McWilliams
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....
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Ah, sure jasus it’s great
- By Lily O'D on 24-11-19
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Renaissance Nation
- How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....
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tedious
- By J Westwood on 07-01-20
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I Am a Strange Loop
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-18
- Language: English
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....
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Philosophy and Life
- Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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From eminent philosopher A. C. Grayling comes an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live, exploring with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves....
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Authentic philosophical survey of the big question
- By Anonymous User on 29-12-23
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Philosophy and Life
- Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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From eminent philosopher A. C. Grayling comes an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live, exploring with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves....
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The Prince
- Penguin Classics
- By: George Bull - translator, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince....
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I understand now what he meant
- By Anonymous User on 18-05-21
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The Prince
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Niccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince....
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....
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Great book ruined by narration
- By Stevenph7 on 05-02-21
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- By: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....
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Interesting, informative and enlightening
- By j a boult on 22-06-23
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-06-08
- Language: English
- Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....
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Down Girl
- The Logic of Misogyny
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....
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Academic text
- By Ragne on 29-04-21
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Down Girl
- The Logic of Misogyny
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-05-18
- Language: English
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....
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From What Is to What If
- Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- By: Rob Hopkins
- Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....
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What if everyone read this book...?
- By Milkmoon Mama on 02-03-20
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From What Is to What If
- Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....
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Smoke Hole
- Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
- By: Martin Shaw
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole to help us understand our world....
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No superlative does justice.
- By inbr1ghtestday on 28-11-21
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Smoke Hole
- Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-05-21
- Language: English
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At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole to help us understand our world....
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The Prophets of Doom
- By: Neema Parvini
- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalization and GDP growth at any cost.
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Excellent Overview
- By Thomas on 18-05-24
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The Prophets of Doom
- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalization and GDP growth at any cost.
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....
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To Have or to Be?
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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To Have or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm....
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To have or to be
- By KG on 27-06-20
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To Have or to Be?
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-05-20
- Language: English
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To Have or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm....
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How to Be a Conservative
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Roger Scruton’s How to Be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the pressures to live otherwise....
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A necessary reminder of true conservatism
- By Tone on 31-08-23
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How to Be a Conservative
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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Roger Scruton’s How to Be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the pressures to live otherwise....
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Neuroqueer Heresies
- Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
- By: Nick Walker
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.
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Excellent
- By Philippa Jane Richardson on 26-08-24
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Neuroqueer Heresies
- Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 27-12-22
- Language: English
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Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.
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On Truth
- By: Harry G. Frankfurt
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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As Frankfurt showed previously, bullshit lies within the realm of subjective perception....
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An Opportunity Missed....
- By Jim Vaughan on 02-12-12
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On Truth
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-12-06
- Language: English
- As Frankfurt showed previously, bullshit lies within the realm of subjective perception....
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Nihilism
- The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- By: Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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In 1962, the young Eugene Rose - the future Hieromonk Seraphim - undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of truth in the modern age....
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Simply Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-22
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Nihilism
- The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-12-21
- Language: English
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In 1962, the young Eugene Rose - the future Hieromonk Seraphim - undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of truth in the modern age....
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